Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #54

🥇 Cover Story

In this blog post, you will learn how to unpack a canvas apps in your pipeline to improve transparency and error tracing.

With the recent experimental announcement of the PowerApps Solution Packager, we now have a much better way of managing Canvas Apps in the source code repository. Scott shares his top 3 principles to follow for ALM.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Debajit shows us the new capabilities within the API that lets you show or hide any part of the header and ribbon menu dynamically.

In this post, Temmy explains us how to work with Lookup Dialog in model driven app.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Michał created a wonderful canvas app that resembles a freeze pane feature of excel.

In this short guide Matt will show you how to use Power Apps text functions and give everyday examples of how you use them in your own apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Want to make a Flow send HTTP Response Asynchronously then check this post from Priyesh!

Mehdi demonstrates a nice trick to update the low-density header to high-density header with very minimal efforts using Cloud Flows.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

Andrew goes rouge in this post where he dives into the internal working of PCF to configure code components that will support Lookup attribute.

Debajit was one of the first few people to blog about PCF code components and since then CLI has changed. In this post Debajit clears few of the issues people were facing.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this post, Ragavan shows us the implementation to make sure the footer is always sticking to the bottom of the page.

We already have a connector for Pipedrive in Power Automate but that connector offers very few actions. In this blog, we will see how we can create a custom connector for Pipedrive and add more actions to it.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this article, we will discuss what exactly is debouncing and throttling, why we use them & the main difference between the two.

In this blog post Luise explains how you can send an Adaptive Card with CLI Microsoft 365. She guides you from zero to hero , so even if you don't anything about the CLI Microsoft 365 or about Adaptive cards, don't stop reading.

⛅ Around Azure

If you have a requirement to access graph endpoint as a signed in user/account on an instant/automated/scheduled flow, this blog post will help you with instructions and steps to access the Microsoft graph API with delegated permissions using the HTTP connector

Using the sync command of azcopy, we can keep the local data synchronized with Azure Blob.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Implementation Of Custom API In Common Data Service - Sumit Gupta

Force sync team members to Dataverse for Teams *Users* table - Yash Agarwal

Getting All Global Optionset options using Xrm.WebApi -{Quick Tip} - Mahender Pal

How to create custom errors in Power Apps! - Hardit Bhatia

Validate JSON Schema for HTTP Request trigger in a Flow and send Response - Priyesh Wagh

Reuse Flows connected to SharePoint Lists – Working again - Eickhel Mendoza

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Danish Naglekar on The MVP Show chats about his journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and shares his knowledge about PCF builder.

🐤 Tweets of the week

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1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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